Hi Everyone,

I did some moving and shaking on my Dapper Drake server yesterday. All worked well until I rebooted, and now I can't get X-Windows to work over SSH. All I did was repartition my hard drive and put /var and /tmp on a separate partition (linked to the original directories). I read somewhere that that was a smart thing to do. After the reboot, though, I get "cannot open display" when trying to SSH (-X) into the box from my Powerbook. After hours of searching, I found a tip that said to try restarting the X-server with "startx." Here's the output:

X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory), aborting.

Did I goof something up with moving /var to another partition? That's the only thing I can think of. Firewalling shouldn't be an issue because it's SSH (and that's open) and I did use -X when logging in. Any help is appreciated.

Just to be clear, I'm trying to log in remotely using ssh -X username@server. I'm not trying to run X-windows on the actual machine.

More troubleshooting: I can log into my university account and run x programs (e.g, xclock) just fine. When I use the same machine (my powerbook) to login to my Ubuntu box, it doesn't work. Importantly, it doesn't forward the display--the DISPLAY variable is empty. Not so when I login to the university machine. Using ssh -X...

One last thing: when I run xauth on my user account (with the -b option) it never does anything, but it does id the .Xauthority file when I do it as root.

I'd prefer to fix this rather than reinstall the system, but if that's what I have to do...

Joe